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Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …” (research paper by Berend van der Kolk and Wesley Kaufmann)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/13

[WaybackSave/Archive] Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …”

This is not limited to organisations having a lot of non-measurable goals: all organisations have those, including the ones in IT.

Research paper (published 7 years ago today, still very relevant) at [Wayback/Archive] Performance measurement, cognitive dissonance and coping strategies: exploring individual responses to NPM-inspired output control | Journal of Management Control

Abstract

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For my link archive: Counting the leading zeroes and ones in a binary number with C#

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/13

From a while back, but still interesting:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Counting the leading zeroes in a binary number with C#
  2. [Wayback/Archive] c# – Getting the number of leading 1 bits – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Barry Kelly and [Wayback/Archive] SoapBox)

Especially the first link explains the algorithm very well and is similar to links referred to from the Stack Overflow question as it is based on counting ones (and leading ones are basically leading zeros but bit-inverted).

It also explains a cool thing for leading zeros: modern CPU have instructions which .NET Core.

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Posted in .NET, AArch64/arm64, Algorithms, ARM, Assembly Language, C, C#, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development, x64, x86 | Tagged: , , | Leave a Comment »

Delphi and SonarQube: great open source additions in the last few years.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/12

In the past, I mentioned that the open source SonarQube by SonarSource was on my “research list” in a few blog posts* as I am a fan of static code analysis **, and now it is time to amend them with the current state for using it in Delphi.

SonarSource products

  • SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) is an open core product for static code analysis, with additional features offered in commercial editions.
  • SonarQube Cloud (formerly SonarCloud) offers free analysis of open source projects.
  • SonarQube for IDE (formerly SonarLint) is a free IDE extension for static analysis.

For more history on them, see [Wayback/Archive] About – Sonar and SonarSource | Sonar.

Delphi integration

There are two open source integrations: for ConarQube Server, and Linting, both maintained by the same company ([Wayback/Archive] IntegraDev · GitHub):

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Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development, SonarQube, Static Code Analysis, Unit Testing, vscode Visual Studio Code | Leave a Comment »

And do it has begun: Go European — Discover European products and services

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/12

[Wayback/Archive] Go European — Discover European products and services

A community-driven directory bringing you recommendations and insights from across Europe

It seems to have started as [Wayback/Archive] Buy European Made which I think is more appropriate in the current stiation:

Switch to EU-Made. Support the European Values

A directory of EU-made alternatives. From software and electronics to everyday products – all made in Europe

That’s why I put the old poster on the right.

Related/from:

--jeroen


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I was today years old when I found there is a shortcut to switch to the Terminal tab in Visual Studio Code

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/12

Boy, I always to the Ctrl+Shift+Space on Microsoft Windows (or on MacOS Command+Shift+Space) detour to switch to the Terminal tab in Visual Studio Code

So I was amazed to find the shortcut inside the first bullet in the Google Search quote of the first result at [Wayback/Archive] vscode terminal open new terminal – Recherche Google:

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Posted in .NET, Apple, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Software Development, Terminal, vscode Visual Studio Code, Windows, Windows Terminal | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Need to write bookmarklet for converting RSS feed URL to PlayerFM import feed URL

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/11

Target format:

https://player.fm/importer/feed?url=%s

Where %s is the RSS feed for a podcast as URL encoding.

Example:

https://whycast.podcast.audio/@whycast/feed.xml

becomes

https://player.fm/importer/feed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwhycast.podcast.audio%2F%40whycast%2Ffeed.xml

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

One of the marvels from b0rk on Twitter is some 40 pages of debugging strategies: by now it should be a fully fledged zine

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/11

[Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “so far we have about 40 pages of debugging strategies and trying to organize them is a struggle :) here’s a draft of the table of contents (though it’s SO FAR from being done, note the “unsorted pages” section haha)”:

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Table of contents text (via Google Lens):

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On my list of things to try: xBrowserSync – Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/10

[Wayback/Archive] xBrowserSync – Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!

Things to watch for are syncing actions the browsers perform themselves (like Google Browser Sync integrated into Chrome and Firefox Sync).

It is open source at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – xbrowsersync/api: Server-side REST API that serves requests from xBrowserSync client apps.

Other freemium solutions also exist, like [Wayback/Archive] Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager which has [Wayback/Archive] Pricing — Raindrop.io.

Via :

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Posted in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, LifeHacker, Power User, Safari, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

U-prevent

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/10

Interesting:

Get more insights by calculating individual cardiovascular risk and the effect of preventive treatment.

[Wayback/Archive] U-prevent.

--jeroen

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oobe\bypassnro removed from Windows 11 24H2 dead/hidden ? – YouTube – or is it? Two alternatives

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/07

I needed this for some Windows ARM VMs on VMware Fusion for running on my M1 MacBook Pro: [Wayback/Archive] oobe\bypassnro removed from Windows 11 24H2 dead/hidden ? – YouTube

In the end this combination works:

  • before booting, remove the network adapter (physically, or virtually from VMware Fusion or from Parallels)
  • after boot, as soon as the Shift-F10 combination works, run oobe\bypassnro (or add the registry entry, see below)

After this, Windows detected no network, and offered an install with a local username/password indicating the choice “I don’t have internet”.

If that ever fails in the future, I can use this trick from the comments:

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